Whole Foods Market has always carried a unique selection of craft beers, but now it looks as if the supermarket chain is getting into the business of making its own brew. To do it, the Texas-based chain wants to hire its first brewmaster to make beer in-house at one of…
New Times’ 17th-annual “Original” Beerfest has been postponed. The event, which was scheduled for April 5 at America’s Backyard in downtown Fort Lauderdale, will be rescheduled for the fall. This announcement in no way affects Brew at the Zoo, which is scheduled for Zoo Miami. Broward’s “Original” Beerfest will still…
Want proof that craft beer is super popular? (Besides the nifty articles on this blog?) The Brewers Association released its preliminary data on craft beer for 2013, and the numbers are staggering. With all of its diversity and thousands of producers, craft beer (defined as any small, independent brewery that…
Veganism can be a lonely affair. Sitting at the lunch table, you and your kale salad can feel pretty isolated alongside everyone else, with their pork rinds and turkey sammies. Hence the introduction of Vegan Drinks Night, a kickoff event for the brand-spankin’-new MeetUp group, Very Vegan Miami. The event…
Saint Patrick’s Day is this Monday, March 17 and, since we’ve got the weekend coming up, celebrations and wearing of the green start this weekend, with a race in downtown Fort Lauderdale, and many bars celebrating St. Practice Day on Sunday. Around this time of year, most people break out…
Saint Patrick’s Day is fast approaching, and if you’ve paid attention since you reached legal drinking age, you’ll know that it is one of the dreaded ‘amateur hours’ of beer drinkers. The holiday, which occurs on the 17th of March, is a Christian feast day celebrating the patron saint of…
It’s #FloridaBeerFriday. Every Friday, we take a look at a beer brewed in the Sunshine State, giving analysis to the burgeoning craft beer movement of Florida. This week we’re popping up north to one of the area’s long standing microbreweries, Tequesta Brewing Company, all the way up in Tequesta, naturally…
Thirty minutes into Ron Jeremy’s Ron De Jeremy Spiced Rum bottle-signing, a modest but eager line of about ten had formed in Crown Wine & Spirits, at the corner of Sunrise and 15th Ave in Fort Lauderdale…
Fans of fine rum will want to make plans to come out to Crown Wine & Spirits for a meet and greet with the man known for his… ummmm… spirit… when Ron Jeremy hosts a special rum-tasting and bottle-signing today at Crown Wine & Spirits in Fort Lauderdale from 4…
In case you didn’t know, inhaling vaporized hops is a thing now. According to Lagunitas Brewing Co., vaporizing hops has been the talk of homebrewers for years, and the Petaluma brewery has known about it for some time too. It’s thanks to the brewery that the practice of vaporizing hops…
Today is a double whammy. Not only is it Monday (which is usually the worst day of the week), but it’s the first Monday after daylight savings time. We’re not sure about you, but when the alarm went off this morning and it was still dark out we weren’t in…
UPDATE: It appears that this will be the last Hunahpu’s Day. Cigar City’s founder Joey Redner told the Full Pint, “I am acknowledging defeat. That was the last Hunahpu Day. The beer will go into distribution next year and hopefully spread out among many accounts; it will get to consumers…
It’s already March and the recently-opened Twenty Twenty Grille is already getting in on the beer scene by pairing with Funky Buddha Brewery for a beer dinner tomorrow at their location in Boca Raton. Starting at 7 p.m., dinner guests will expand their stomachs with a four-course dinner prepared by…
Head brewer Justin Miles is at it again over at The Mack House in Davie. After coming on board with Holy Mackerel’s nano brewery last year, Miles has been busy crafting recipe after recipe of ‘off-centered’ beers (pardon the usage Dogfish Head!) on a 2 barrel system for the small…
It’s #FloridaBeerFriday. Every Friday, we take a look at a beer brewed in the Sunshine State, giving analysis to the burgeoning craft beer movement of Florida. This week we’re going to take a look at the gold medal winning double IPA from Due South Brewing, Category 5 IPA. As we…
The time to celebrate is almost here. The day of Saint Patrick is coming up in just over a week. In America it’s the one day of the year in which everyone wants to have a good time — and pretend to be Irish for the day. While most South…
Excited for all of the breweries under construction in Florida? Don’t get too excited too fast. If one Florida state representative has his way, the idea of a small-batch and hyperlocal brewery could be a thing of the past. House Bill 1329, a law sponsored by Southwest Florida Republican state…
Ice, Ice Beer-by.Miami New Times Brew at the Zoo is back. That means it’s time to enjoy hundreds of the world’s finest beers alongside the wildest creatures you’ve ever encountered. No. We’re not talking about your college roommates. We’re talking about monkeys…and tigers…and Vanilla Ice. It all goes down on…
It’s been a busy weekend for brewers in Florida: the start of Tampa Bay Beer Week with the Florida Brewers Guild Festival and the judged awards of the Best Florida Beer’s Brewer’s Ball. This past Sunday, March 2, brewers from all over the state descended on Tampa to find out…
It’s #FloridaBeerFriday. Every Friday, we take a look at a beer brewed in the Sunshine State, giving analysis to the burgeoning craft beer movement of Florida. If there were ever a beer to blur the lines between what the modern American pale ale is, and the IPA, it could very…
We talked last week about some ideas for starting up homebrewing: heading over to one of our great local homebrew shops and tapping that knowledge sap from the minds of their proprietors (what an odd analogy). But maybe you’re someone who still needs a more hands-on guided approach to get…
Boca Raton will soon have its own production brewery, thanks to the passing Tuesday night of Resolution No. 23-2014, “A resolution of the City of Boca Raton considering conditional use approval to allow the operation of a beverage manufacturing use with an accessory tasting room within existing tenant space in…
